Area lawmakers are split on a bill that seeks to remove city property owners’ power to require supermajority votes to rezone neighboring land — a power that developers argue unduly obstructs economic development.

A Virginia man is facing nearly half a dozen charges in North Carolina after Elizabeth City police say he drove a sport utility vehicle into a house Sunday morning and then lied that someone else had been at the wheel.

After Pasquotank County High School let out on March 18, and most students flooded the exit doors, a group of about 20 congregated in an upstairs science classroom and set to work on their miniature solar cars.

Here are a few facts that Governor Pat McCrory and legislative leaders never mention when they boast of the alleged “Carolina Comeback” and that right-wing pundits always leave out when marveling at what they describe as “sizzling” job growth in North Carolina.